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Author Cohen, Jodi R.

Title Communication criticism : developing your critical powers / Jodi R. Cohen.

Imprint Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  302.2 C66c    ---  Available
Description xiv, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Rhetoric & society (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ; v. 2
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The need to think critically about communication -- How to think critically about communication -- Language as style -- Language as sign systems -- Language as metaphor -- Structure as organization -- Structure as editing images -- Structure as narrative -- Structure as drama -- Reasoning as rhetorical argument -- Reasoning as field dependent-argument -- Reasoning as narrative -- Character as ethos.
Character as the second persona -- Character as identification -- Emotion as pathos -- Emotion as desire -- Critical powers over who we are, what we know, and what we do.
Subject Communication criticism.
Criticism.
ISBN 0761906304 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0761906290 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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